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September 8, 2006


Shueisha Sort-Of Supports Takeshi Obata After Cartoonist’s Arrest

Basically saying "We're not going to pull all his books just yet" certainly won't win Shueisha any above-and-beyond awards in the wake of Takeshi Obata's Wednesday morning arrest for having a knife in his car, but it's obviously better than the alternative and maybe more than anything said on the subject to date underlines the seriousness of Japan's weapons laws. Obata is the artist of the Hikaru no Go and Death Note series.
 
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